Thursday, June 21, 2007

Big Rock Candy Mountain





Posted by mister anchovy at 9:29 p.m.

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Candy Minx said...

Boy that was a whole lot of Rock Candy Mountains.

How do you post that many videos at once?

Um check this out about making Evan Almighty the sequel/spin off of Bruce Almighty:(from Wikipedia)

Director Tom Shadyac felt the film reflected environmental themes of how humans are stewards of God's creation. In keeping with the themes, Shadyac had the crew plant trees to offset the production's carbon emissions, and bought bikes for all the cast and crew. In addition, rather than simply demolishing sets, Shadyac tried to donate houses built for the production and had the Ark set recycled. In addition, during the premiere of the film for cast and crew at Universal Citywalk, the attendees were encouraged to donate to a campaign to plant trees in forests around the world. The after party used recycled cups and plates to offset the use of resources.
Animal welfare concerns

The American Humane Association oversaw the one hundred species of animals that were used in the film. In scenes including both predators and prey, the animals were digitally added instead to ensure their safety.
Evan Almighty and Universal Pictures were accused by animal rights group PETA of using animals who had been previously abused in the production of this movie. Two chimpanzees who appear in the movie, Cody and Sable, were surrendered by their owner to settle a lawsuit that documented allegations of beatings and mistreatment.

In an online interview, Director Tom Shadyac said of PETA’s criticisms “They’re not wrong. There’s a certain amount of hypocrisy whenever you work with animals, even to show, which we hope we’re showing, that respect of all of God’s creation… I don’t know. I respect their criticism." PETA was also critical of Birds & Animals Unlimited, the primary animal supplier to the film, for alleged serious and continuing violations of the US Animal Welfare Act, including failure to comply with veterinary care requirements and failure to provide shelter from heat and sunlight, which PETA details and claims it can document.

2:35 p.m.
Candy Minx said...

I really liked Tim's photos...you know what and I said this over a t Tims...I'm getting the feeling that someone designed a narrower road right, bigger boulevard...so thought trees should grow at another spot to widen sidewalk or something right?

Instead...why not plant vegetables, lettuce, herbs so the neighbours could grow their own food subsidized for almost free?

Now see, that would be a good design.

2:40 p.m.
mister anchovy said...

Candy,
To post multiple videos, all you do is cut and paste the "embed" link from you tube into the message box for your post. You can put as many as you want in there, no problem.

11:22 p.m.

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